Memorial

Roll of Honour 1939-45 Cricket and Rugby Football Club

Sunderland

Memorial Name: Roll of Honour 1939-45 Cricket and Rugby Football Club (S140.142)

NEWMP Ref No.: S140.142

Parish: Sunderland

Original Location:

Ashbrooke SR2 7HH

Which War:

1939-45

Memorial Description:

Roll of Honour list produced in 1963 for Sunderland Cricket and Rugby Football Club, Ashbrooke.

Names:

31 names, ranks, regiments and decorations.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. ” Once again no official Roll of Honour was compiled and the following list may well be incomplete. Research after seventeen years has proved difficult and it can only be asked that imperfections in the list may be forgiven.”

2.” The ground was in constant use for organised training, games and athletics, not only by garrison units (among which were the North Staffordshire and East Yorkshire Regiments as well as search light and artillery units), but also by the Home Guard, A.T.C., Girls High School (tennis and hockey), and Bede School (Rugby football).”

3. ” The pavilion slope was ploughed up and cultivated for a time by a groundsman but ultimately it was divided into six allotments in which green fingered members toiled assiduously – to the great envy of their fellows when crops of vegetables and potatoes were harvested.”

4. ” Damage was sustained in three air-raids affecting the Tunstall Vale end of the ground on 23rd February 1941 and the bowling green on 14th March and 23rd May 1943 and the greater part of the pavilion was requisitioned for occupation by the R.A.F. barrage balloon crews from 25th May 1943 to 9th September 1944.”

5. “162 members were traced by the secretary in 1944 as having served in the Forces, no fewer than thirty one gave their lives in freedom’s cause.” Notes 1-5 from Chapter Nine At War Again, To Ashbrooke and Beyond

Sources:

Photos: James Pasby

To Ashbrooke and beyond: the history of the Sunderland Cricket and Rugby Football Club 1808 – 1963 E. Watts Moses; SCRFC, pages 41-43 1963

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Tony Harding

Research In Progress:

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Names Documents:

  Roll of Honour

  1939-45

  William Henry Greenwell Bowmer    Sub Lieut., R.N.V.R.

  Frederick John Brodhurst          Major, R.A.S.C.

  Ronald Mark Carrell               Pilot Officer, R.A.F.

  Rowland Branston Cox              Wing Commander, R.A.F.

  John Browning Deas                Captain, East Yorks. Rgt.

  James Edgar Dobbie                Chaplain, R.A.F.

  John Maple Emerson                R.A.F.

  William Dennis Fairclough         2nd Lieut., Durham L.I.

  William Garbutt Farrow            Engineer Officer, M.N.

  Alistair Frederick Foster         Captain, Royal Artillery

  James Gilbertson                  Surgeon Lieut., R.N.V.R.

  John Stewart Gillan               Captain, Seaforth Highlanders

  Brian Hunter                      Flt. Sergt., R.A.F.

  Charles William Laing             2nd Lieut., East Riding Yeomanry

  Leicester Little                  Captain, Air Observation Regt.

  Alfred Peter Mair                 Captain, Royal Artillery, attached R.A.F.

  M.L. Marshall                     Lost at sea

  Harold Ashton Milburn             Fl. Lieut., R.A.F.

  Kenneth Storey Morton             Major, Royal Artillery, attached R.A.F.

  Guy Humble Nicholson              Lieut. (E), R.N.R.

  Hubert Stuart Ray                 Flt. Lieut., R.A.F.

  Thomas Henry Shacklock            Chief Engineer, M.N.

  Walter Edward Battle Silva-White  Flying Officer, R.A.F.

  Alan Havelock Spence              Sgt. Observer, R.A.F.

  Kenneth Steel                     Pilot Officer, R.A.F.

  Patrick Godfrey Thompson          Sgt. Navigator, R.A.F.

  W. Oliver Thompson                Flt. Lieut., R.A.F.

  William Grant Waugh               Lieut., 10th Hussars    

  John Whittaker                    Lieut., Royal Tank Corps

                                    (Special Service Div.)

  Arthur John Witherington          Flt. Lieut., R.A.F.

  Denys March Witherington          Private, 1st Loyal Regt.

  —————————————————————–

  

  Decorations & Awards

  1939-45

  Major Alfred Bannister                     Bronze Star (U.S.A.)

  Sqdr. Leader Wilkinson Barnes              Mentioned in Dispatches

  Robert George Browell                      M.B.E. (Civil)

  Major George Cecil Coatsworth              Mentioned in Dispatches

  Geoffrey John Burdon Cox                   B.E.M.

  Lt. Col. Arnold Cecil Dixon                M.B.E. (Mil.), Mentioned in Dispatches

  Captain Gordon Fairclough                  M.C.

  Captain Geoffrey Gilbertson                Croix de Guerre (with gold star)

  Lt. Col. Norman McKay Jesper               D.S.O.

  Sqdr. Leader Joseph Robert Kayll           D.S.O., O.B.E. (Mil.), D.F.C.

  Joshua Stoker Marwood                      M.B.E. (Civil)

  George Shipley McIntire                    O.B.E. (Civil)

  Major Stanley Wayman Milburn               M.B.E. (Mil.)

  Lt. Comdr. John Charlton Moor (R.N.V.R.)   War Cross (Greece)

  Lt. Col. Dudley Stewart Norman             D.S.O.

  Lt. Col. Alan Herring Parnaby              M.B.E. (Mil.)

  Major Charles William Pickersgill          M.B.E. (Mil., Mentioned in Dispatches

  Lieut. Bertram Stephen Roland Rambaut      M.C.

  Sqdr. Leader Leslie Scorer                 D.F.C.

  Lieut. John Elliott Smart (R.N.V.R.)       D.S.O., M.B.E. (Mil.)

  Lt. Col. Thomas Coke Squance               O.B.E. (Mil.)

  Major James Storey                         Mentioned in Dispatches

  Sqdr. Leader Derek Thirlwell               D.F.C.

  Robert Cyril Thompson (later Pilot Officer)C.B.E. (Civil)

  P.O. (Air Gunner) Jeffrey George Turner

      (Fleet Air Arm)                        D.S.M.

  Flt. Lieut. Richard Bewick Ward            D.F.C.

  Group Captain Richard Henry Waterhouse     C.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C.,

                                             Silver Star (U.S.A.)

  *Lt. Col. William Stuart Waterhouse        M.C.

  Captain Middlemost Wawn                    D.F.C., Mentioned in Dispatches

  Captain Thomas Ernest Williams             M.C.

  *The only war-time commissioned officer to command a

  Regular Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry.

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